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"The book "Americans Unlike Us" tries to show how the mentality of Americans differs from the mentality of other peoples: habits, etiquette, everyday habits and language, not to mention everything else. It is about how differently Russians and Americans deal with friends, raise children, work, and celebrate holidays, who the "average American" is, and much more. The book is intended for a wide ra\nge of readers." --

"Germany's Role in European Russia Policy—A New German Power? provides an innovative framework for analysing how EU-Russia relations might develop well into the twenty-first century." --- Professor Angela Stent, Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University "With her sophisticated, well-researched and astute assessment of Germany's influence on European policies towards Russia, Liana Fix effectively debunks many of the myths about Germany's alleged "hegemony" in Europe. Essential reading for anyone interested in Germany in Europe." --- Professor Hanns W. Maull, Senior Distinguished Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) "This book is highly recommended to anyone who wishes to understand how EU foreign policy emerges from the complex interaction between member states and EU institutions. I particularly hope it will find many readers in Russia, where experts and policy makers alike tend to frame Germany's changing role and policy in terms of traditional great power politics." --- Dr. Sabine Fischer, Team Leader, Public Diplomacy. EU and Russia project, Moscow This book contributes to the debate about a new German power in Europe with an analysis of Germany's role in European Russia policy. It provides an up-to-date account of Germany's "Ostpolitik" and how Germany has influenced EU-Russia relations since the Eastern enlargement in 2004 - partly along, partly against the interests and preferences of new member states. The volume combines a rich empirical analysis of Russia policy with a theory-based perspective on Germany's power and influence in the EU. The findings demonstrate that despite Germany's central role, exercising power within the EU is dependent on legitimacy and acceptance by other member states. Liana Fix is a historian and political scientist. In her work, she focuses on German foreign policy, Russia and Eastern Europe as well as European security and has published widely in academia, think tanks and national and international media. She completed a doctorate degree at the Justus Liebig University Giessen and a Master's degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

The volume combines a rich empirical analysis of Russia policy with a theory-based perspective on Germanys power and influence in the EU. The findings demonstrate that despite Germanys central role, exercising power within the EU is dependent on legitimacy and acceptance by other member states. Liana Fix is a historian and political scientist. In her work, she focuses on German foreign policy, Russia and Eastern Europe as well as European security and has published widely in academia, think tanks and national and international media. She completed a doctorate degree at the Justus Liebig University Giessen and a Masters degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

In the course of the past ten years, there has been a significant change in the roles, perceptions and practices of key human rights actors in Armenia. There has been a rise in civic, rights and legal consciousness among the citizens. This has, in turn, led to frequent outbreaks of protests and the 2018 Velvet Revolution.

The paper is about Sergej Ivanovič Zarudnyj, a central figure in Tsar Alexander II's "great reforms". Descended from the family of a Cossack staršyna from Sloboda Ukraine, Zarudnyj had a brillant career in the imperial capital as a engaged reformer of Russia's backwards legal system. His cultural origins, his family's history, and his education at Kharkiv University deeply affected his translation work and legal discourse; in both of these spheres, he aimed to introduce and popularize the products of Italian legal culture in the Russian Empire.

"This title was first published in 2002: There is a multitude of assessment methods available for analyzing and reporting on the impacts of policies, all with different underlying assumptions and a wide range of criteria. Since the 1950s, much research has gone into creating guidelines for policy analysis, yet only a small percentage of evaluation has been carried out on transport policy - and none by political scientists or social policy specialists. The editors of this volume recognize that European integration has seen a drive to bring policy evaluation on to the transport agenda and has increased demands for 'strategic assessments'. It has become apparent that to gain a fuller understanding of the success of a transport programme, a much more complex combination of analytical methods must be used, and a set of guidelines specifically for the field of transport must be developed. This book achieves this by bringing together a multidisciplinary team of analysts from throughout the EU to discuss in a much broader way the various types of assessment methods and how they can best be used to evaluate transport programmes and systems, both individually and in combination."--Provided by publisher.

"In the last ten years the number of nonprofits and social sector organizations has grown by almost 25 percent, while charitable giving declined 30 percent over the same period. As a result, many organizations are chasing grants, tweaking and adding to their core activities to match what they think funders are looking for. Almost half of nonprofits surveyed nationally in 2014 said they added additional programs in the last year. The result is colloquially known as "mission creep"- organizations trying to be everything to everyone. Yet research suggests that the more goals individuals or organizations pursue, the less likely they are to achieve them, leaving these organizations often overwhelmed, underfunded, and unfulfilled. Mission Control: How Nonprofits and Governments Can Focus, Achieve More, and Change the World is designed to restore focus and gain "mission control" to identify the things they should and should not do to drive impact. Drawing from the author's experience of working with thousands of clients at nonprofits and government agencies around the world, both large and small, the book represents the stories of countless mission-driven organizations. Downey helps leaders, teams, executive directors, and boards with the critical task of clarifying an organization's sweet spot at the intersection of what it is good at, what its clients need, and the activities that get measurable and sustainable results."

Arabic theories of astral influences: Abu Mashar al-Balkhi -- Arabic theories of astral magic: the De radiis and the Picatrix -- Textual and intellectual reception of Arabic astral theories in the twelfth century -- Magic in the thirteenth century: Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas and Roger Bacon -- Early modern astral magic: Marsilio Ficino -- True magic and astrology of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola -- The magic and astrology of John Dee -- Celestial souls and cosmic daemons

1. Introduction : power and orientation in Southeast Asia / Liana Chua. [et al.] -- 2. The subject of power in Southeast Asia / Shelly Errington -- 3. Power, protection and perfectibility : aspiration and materiality in Thailand / Joanna Cook -- 4. Sakti reconsidered : power and the disenchantment of the world / Adrian Vickers -- 5. Landscape, power and agency in eastern Indonesia / Catherine Allerton -- 6. The symbolic appropriation of war-made objects by the Jorai of northeast Cambodia / Krisna Uk -- 7. The anthropology of a necessary mistake : the unsettled dead and the imagined state in contemporary Singapore / Ruth E. Toulson -- 8. Privateers, politicians, prowess and power / Loren Ryter -- 9. Bureaucratic migrants and the potential of prosperity in upland Laos / Sarinda Singh -- 10. Living on the horizon of the everlasting present : power, planning and the emergence of baroque forms of life in urban Malaysia / Richard Baxstrom -- 11. Apparitions of sapiocracy : Vietnam's emergent welfare state and the restless dead of Thanh Ha / Markus Schlecker -- 12. From the power of prayer to prayer power : on religion and revolt in the modern Philippines / Deirdre de la Cruz.